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Attorney Michael
Paraskeva has started refusing to pay his social security contributions in
protest against the government’s decision to raid the social security fund
to satisfy government debts. He hopes his stand will help build a civil
disobedience movement. One supporter explained: “I have not paid social
security since 2011. I am a victim, not a
perpetrator, of the economic crisis and I’m being made to pay for those who
brought it about.”

Meanwhile, a bit south of Venice, in Ferrara, businesswoman Alessandra Marazzi
raised a bit of a stir by launching
a tax strike recently. She got an outpouring of support from other small
business owners who say that they have to choose between taxes and solvency,
and that the government takes far more than it gives in return.

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